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L.D.K.A. takes in SIN CITY and is reduced to a sticky geeky amorphous throbbing mass of well pleasured flesh!

Nice by Fearsme	Mar 16th, 2005 06:39:17 PM
Good review, cant wait.....
F'in A by Nivek666	Mar 16th, 2005 06:50:34 PM
Cool, Im hearing good things all over from these test screenings.
Animation vs. live by muvynupe	Mar 16th, 2005 06:57:10 PM
There was a really cool NASCAR commercial with CG characters in the Sin City high contrast style. I always thought that technique would be a perfect way to capture the Sin City saga, but I must admit that I'm eagerly awaiting my shot at seeing this. Rodriguez gets major points for involving Miller in such an organic fashion. Would that we could get the same type of collabo with Moore for a Watchmen project. A guy can dream can't he?
Stop accepting parts that require nudity... by Mr.F.N.Sunshine	Mar 16th, 2005 07:34:49 PM
if you aren't willing to do them. Give the job to someone else. I am seriously looking forward to this film regardless.
I guess I dont get star attraction billing. by Killgore	Mar 16th, 2005 07:43:44 PM
For the unedited article, check out http://www.superherohype.com/f orums/showthread.php?p=5273557
Jessica Alba can be seen stark naked in the current GQ by MaxCalifornia.	Mar 16th, 2005 07:46:58 PM
Hand lotion sold separately.
sounds awesome by ATARI	Mar 16th, 2005 07:55:02 PM
April 1st can't come fast enough for me.
GUH! by Pseudo	Mar 16th, 2005 08:00:27 PM
I've been hard for this movie since I heard they were making it. That would explain the fainting and general dizziness. My friends and I have already made plans to bum rush the theater when this comes out...then maybe turn around and see it again! I agree about the lack of naked Jessica Alba, I've a couple of buddies who are insane about her who'll be crushed.
Overhype? That's why I was trying to be restrained by Killgore	Mar 16th, 2005 08:22:07 PM
But I couldn't stop typing dammit!!! I tried not to over inflate it, but it's only been a day and I already wear Sin City like a X shaped scar on my mug!!!
OH SHIT, I think I just crapped my pants!! ERgh can't fucking WA by IAmJacksUserID	Mar 16th, 2005 08:34:11 PM
Goddamn! Anyway, don't worry about unrated cut, I am sure it will be on DVD if not the theatrical cut.
that is SO GOOD to hear by K\|LLDOZER	Mar 16th, 2005 09:13:19 PM
i am so down with this movie ever since i bought That Yellow Bastard to read on the flight home from San Fran back in 1999. I'm not the biggest comic freak, but i thoroughly enjoyed The Dark Knight while trying to make friends in college so long ago. when i saw Frank had done a noir detective story based in gritty reality, i forked over my $4.50 and read TYB on the way home and was stunned. the fact that Rodriguez had taken the source material and made something in loving homage to one of my all time faves - i was both anxious and hopeful. every trailer i've seen so far makes me feel more confident and happy that this excellent story got its due on film. this is an exciting time to be a movie fan. i'm in line on the first day for this. i hope the reviewers aren't plants, and that this can truly be, not only one of the great comic hero movies that's been so trendy in the last few years, but one of the great noir films of this century. bring it.
Ooh! My goodness! by Snow Is Fun	Mar 16th, 2005 09:32:10 PM
I tingle!
I can't believe they made a SIM CITY movie... by Kiyone	Mar 16th, 2005 09:32:14 PM
A SIM CITY movie? Geez, is there any computer game they won't make a movie out of? I'll bet that they'll way overemphasize the tornadoes, the monster attacks, and the nuclear meltdowns, and they won't explore some of the more intruiging aspects of the plot of the game, like how if you replace streets with railroad tracks around a zone, the property value will actually go up! And, if they mention the Laffer curve at all, it will be as an in-joke regarding the boring lecture that Ben Stein, as the teacher, gave in FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF, as though the exciting subplot of determining the best tax rate for your city to maximize revenue while encouraging economic growth isn't enthralling enough in and of its own and needs to be reduced to a cheap punchline.-------------------- ---- Oh, pardon me, there's no M in the title? Oops. Carry on, then. :P
This guy isn't a plant by Monkey Butler	Mar 16th, 2005 09:34:13 PM
Plants don't post in TBs.
the next pulp fiction by blackstormy	Mar 16th, 2005 09:51:10 PM
i saw that on entertainment weekly or something and I am starting to believe.
I must say that I'm extremely disappointed by Stanley Spector	Mar 16th, 2005 09:58:36 PM
that "Cells" by The Servant (the song in the trailers) isn't in the movie. It's like if "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" hadn't been in Kill Bill Vol. 1 or "Let Go" hadn't been in Garden State.
Sim Sin City would be awesome. by IAmJacksUserID	Mar 16th, 2005 10:23:21 PM

MPAA don't you DARE touch this film. by scrivener	Mar 16th, 2005 10:26:24 PM
In the state of Kentucky that could be considered a threat. But I mean it, you old fucking catholic fucks can be offended by all the marionette sex you want, but that dosn't give you a goddamn right to unfairly rate movies. If a single second of Sin City gets cut because of you motherfucking godless cocksuckers, I will hunt you down give it back like whats I done to that priest fellow... -Marv
Holy God check this pic of Alba out. *Warning- may cause intense by IAmJacksUserID	Mar 16th, 2005 10:40:20 PM
http://men.style.com/slideshow s/mens/standalone/gq/feature/0 31505ALBA/00006m.jpg
I'm glad this movie appears to rock, but fuck jessica alba up he by Anlashok	Mar 16th, 2005 11:26:43 PM
Uhm, hmmm, that didn't quite have the punch I thought it would.
Impervious to Criticism by LucienPierce	Mar 17th, 2005 12:29:57 AM
I hate it when films are already a pre-determined 'great' film purely on the basis that fan-boy favourites are creating it. Much like Kill Bill was. Before it came out people were already saying it's the best QT film ever. QT did it so it must be perfect. Back to Sin City...It was genius for them to have Frank Miller direct this (co-direct my ass, he designed the shots, wrote the script - all Rodriguez and QT are doing is facilitate the translation and do a great job of casting) because now we have Frank Miller (who apparently does no wrong as well) and QT on one movie. Hell this should just about be the perfect movie. Now the trailers look cool. The whole HD/CGI backgrounds is still a bit dodgy to me. Sky Captain looked like a Command & conquer intro movie with the characters not believably mixing with the backgrounds. Though it also had poor performances and a poor storyline. Hopefully Sin City doesn't have the same problems and is indeed as cool as it looks. Fingers crossed.
There's no "Sim City" movie, but there's a "7 Deadly Sims" site by FrankDrebin	Mar 17th, 2005 12:40:47 AM
http://www.7deadlysims.com/
Just saw a trailer for a war movie (can't recall the name) where by FrankDrebin	Mar 17th, 2005 12:47:24 AM
Because the MPAA doesn't care about violence, only the color red (which is how movies like "The Mummy" get away murder...literally).
Does not sound like Sim City at all. by uberman	Mar 17th, 2005 01:19:29 AM
Sim City is not a violent game. Why is it these HollyWood hacks always have to trash up a perfectly good suburban story with all these elements? Just based on that review, I'll skip this one and rent the game instead/.
No release date in my country ... by godoffireinhell	Mar 17th, 2005 01:27:15 AM
SIN CITY doesn't even have a release date here in Austria. The same goes for many other European countries. It goes without saying that that sucks dog anus in many, many ways. Usually, when a film doesn't get a release here I just download it but I don't want to watch something as cinematic as SIN CITY obviously is and one of my most anticipated films of 2005 (alongside DEVIL'S REJECTS and LAND OF THE DEAD) in a crappy, cropped, shaky cam version. My last hope is that SIN CITY makes a ton of money in the US because that's what usually convinces distributors here to release a movie.
the whole CGI background will be major turn-off by DarthBakpao	Mar 17th, 2005 01:33:27 AM
it happened to sky captain
"He also tops conran and Sky Captain. All the sets in this movie by Triumph poops!	Mar 17th, 2005 02:04:16 AM
I sure hope so because between the Yahoo photos I saw (comparing blank set to finished shot) and the current TV ads, the backgrounds look as fake as shit and like a tagged on element that the actors are definitely not a part of. Very Sky Captainish where some shots just scream CGI faked background. They just look "off" and your eye can naturally detect it, based on our daily living IN a real world. Still, I'm very much rooting for the movie and will see it opening weekend, so here's keeping fingers crossed it all looks better projected in a theater...
saw it by Electric Tsunami	Mar 17th, 2005 02:37:04 AM
I've been familiar with FM's work since the early 1980s. I read the Robocop2 script long before the film was made. I read his Hard Boiled but never picked up on Sin City. The film is an anthology film and is approachable by people like myself unfamiliar with the characters. That said, it doesn't add up to a whole lot (just as the Bob Crane bio-pic rang hollow). I kept being reminded of equally brutal moments in classic film noir crime dramas (like Mickey Spillane nailing a man's hand to the floor in The Girl Hunters). The violence here seems overpowering and at times the visual styling detracts from the film as a whole. Watching that opening scene your eyes may be drawn to the red dress looking for any flickering grey rather than paying attention the whole composition of the scene. As the film proceeds, the bizarre composite techniques are more easily digested but they still reminded me of former cartoon hybrids especially Liquid Television's adaptation of Charles Burns' Dog Boy (and had me wondering "if only if, Black Hole???..."). Getting back to the violence, have to wonder what point it serves other than numbing the senses. Ichi the Killer was more graphic in the sadism (no sliced nipples in Sin City, although there are spectacular tits and ass) but Ichi made ultraviolence work as it combined elements of A Clockwork Orange and Taxi Driver. Sin City didn't suck and it brings you into a unique world but it ain't so original as to make other films irrelevant. I think it will hold up under repeated viewings and maybe it will grow on me.
Sin City vs. Sky Captain by Electric Tsunami	Mar 17th, 2005 02:48:39 AM
The CGI backgrounds/animations work here much better than in Sky Captain in part because the story(ies) is/are much better. Whereas in Sky Capt. the animation tried to sell you a "false reality" of dinosaurs/robots/hydroplanes, Sin City uses the graphics to convey an artificial "comic book" story in a dark "alternate reality". It can be dreamlike or low budget, take your pick, but the artifice does not invalidate the story. Sky Captain only had effects and visuals while leaving out the plot and character development. Make me wonder how good a film could have been made from American Splendor if it had been an anthology film instead of a biopic about a guy who writes comics about his life (who gets cancer and is cured in 15 minutes). I just hope that I don't see more reviews like I saw for Constantine claiming "it is good despite its comic book origins". Comic adaptations from Alan Moore and Frank Miller (with nods to Will Eisner and Hugo Pratt) need no such excuse.
Lloyd Dobler does kick ass... by SnowMann	Mar 17th, 2005 04:49:45 AM
Anyone who rights in with that handle deserves to be trusted above all others. This movie is going to kick so much ass. I manage a theatre, and I took down our Batman Begins poster and replaced the final Sin City poster after watching the new preview over and over and over... Dissapointing there's no servants in it, and yea... naked alba would be a plus. but who cares? i'm stoked.
These headlines are BRILLIANT! by Liquid_Daze	Mar 17th, 2005 05:50:33 AM
I'm sure the staff keep journals along the lines of... EASYBAKEOVEN goes to "The Laundromat" and gets his drawers washed!" Madd4PhreakBeats visits his grandma AND GETS KISSED! TooEmbarassedToRentPornWhenThe resAFemaleCashier reaffirms his handle. Montgomery Clift's Table sees "DUST" And F&#!@n' Vacuumz It!!!
This film looks cool and different - (and to all you retards, yo by Lezbo Milk	Mar 17th, 2005 06:02:43 AM
CGI is not the root of all evil. It either works or not. Bad CGI can be lived with if the movie is well done and entertaining. Great CGI can leave a bad taste in your mouth if it is in a bad film. Sometimes you assholes can't tell the difference. Shit, I still love Mary Poppin's, and that mixes live action and animation, and it looks like shit...but the movie is still good. Sky Captain was a shitty movie, but a bunch of you scream and whine like little school girls about the sucky CGI, it didn't suck, the movie did. There were some beautiful shot there, probably equall in quality to anything you will see in Sin City, but because the movie will probably rule, you will say "oh the CGI is wayyyyy better". Well it fucking isn't. It's just in a cooler movie. Hell, TPM had better effects than the Matrix, but the Matrix won the best SFX Oscar, for bullet time...which by the way was being done in a fucking Subaru commercial with Jude Nelson 8 months prior to the filming of the Matrix. Go figure.
Sin City... AMEN!! by Psycho_Kenshin	Mar 17th, 2005 06:50:50 AM
April 1st can't come soon enough. This is the most faithful comic adaptation ever filmed, and its based on the slickest comic saga of them all.
What is Keeping this Movie From an Oscar ? by Itchy	Mar 17th, 2005 08:51:51 AM
I'll tell you what. A 15 minute, well lit totally nude lesbo orgy with Jessica Alba, Alexiz Bledl, Brittany Murphy, Carla Gugino and Rosario Dawson. I mean, damn ... whoever did the casting on this thing definately had an eye for the ladies. As for Jessica Alba, trust me girl - the only thing keeping you away from superstardom is your shirt - lose it.
See it's not perverted to ask for Alba's Ass by DannyOcean01	Mar 17th, 2005 09:00:35 AM
This is Sin City, not Risque City. She's a stripper that doesn't strip, great logic there and to be honest Rodriguez should have got someone else in.
Way to Keep it Spoiler Free by Jam Banjo	Mar 17th, 2005 09:21:34 AM
"or clive owen sinking to his doom in tar..." thanks for that, can't wait to see Sin City. Wonder what happens to Clive Owen in the film? Fucks sake.
A stripper by definition has to start off wearing SOMETHING by Lone Fox	Mar 17th, 2005 09:29:41 AM
So she hooks up with Hartigan before she gets 'em out. A deviation from the book that works, and anyway in the original series it was like 5 or 6 pages of gratuitous (yeah, even for Sin City) full page shots of Nancy's lil's, and movie-wise would've taken up what? 15 seconds of film time? I'm pretty sure this won't ruin the movie.
rourke IS marv... by duanejones	Mar 17th, 2005 10:03:21 AM
...and i couldn't be more delighted. one of those perfect meetings of actor and role, even better, it would seem, than der mick's cameo in _animal factory_ (no joke, that was brilliant!). here's to mr. rourke career resuscitation...oh, and, yeah, the film looks good to. BUT! isn't this a co-direction by rodriguez & miller? i believe it is, and commentary from autuerist fanboys should reflect this fact, no?
Jam Banjo...... by Fuzzyjefe	Mar 17th, 2005 10:37:25 AM
Don't worry about that little tidbit. It's not really a spoiler. No one said it's easy to do the right thing in Sin City.
I can't wait for this too . . . by Nice Marmot	Mar 17th, 2005 10:56:44 AM
. . . but have to add that Harry already loves it; could have written his graphic, bodily fluid dripping review of it the second Rodriguez got the job.
LLOYD DOBLER BITCHES by Shigeru	Mar 17th, 2005 11:25:52 AM
This guy rules! "You must chill! You must chill! I have hidden your keys!"
you know the shit is fine when the negatives are certified chick by atomheartbrother	Mar 17th, 2005 11:37:53 AM
now all i need from my comic book shop is MY ticket for a sin city sneak peak and i'll be in business because sin city looks and sounds like it is the shit. the shit!
I hope this doesn't bomb, but... by Right Bastard	Mar 17th, 2005 01:31:28 PM
Once again, they have a (hopefully) great movie on their hands, and the marketing idiots don't know what to do with it. This movie opens in two weeks, and I've seen no advertisement other than on this site.
CAREFUL SCRIVENER!! by darth sars	Mar 17th, 2005 01:31:45 PM
it's only a threat if you use zombies in your post!
2 things by darth sars	Mar 17th, 2005 01:38:16 PM
1. i dunno a single thing about the Sin City stories, but the trailers make this look HOT! 2. speaking of hot, is it just me or does jessica alba become LESS hot the older she gets? i remember her looking MUCH more attractive in Idle Hands? Am I the only one thinking this?
Does Alexis Bledel get down? by Squashua	Mar 17th, 2005 01:50:26 PM
And dirtay? Rory!
Regarding Jessica Alba keeping her clothes on... by Craiggers	Mar 17th, 2005 02:04:41 PM
it just goes to show you how shitty of an actress she is. She has no dedication to her craft whatsoever. I ask you, WHO signs on a movie called "Sin City" to play a motherfucking STRIPPER and then objects to the actual STRIPPING part of her role? A fucking moron that's who. While the movie is still going to kick all kinds of ass, I'm disappointed that Robert Rodriguez, of Rebel without a Crew fame, who has always struck me as a maverick filmmaker, would bend over and let Alba fuck him with this nonsense. Had I been Robert, and I had be faced with Alba's refusal to actually play the role she signed to play because she has insecurities with her body being put on display, I would've told her to walk. Fuck her. Find a better calibur actress. I imagine the studio must have insisted that he have Alba regardless of her willingness to play ball. I find it absurd, also,, if the only reason Alba wouldn't get nude is because she is against the objectification of women in movies, yet she has no problem poledancing.
JESSICA ALBA... by topaz4206	Mar 17th, 2005 02:54:45 PM
is the TRUTH! Hot damn! here's another one from GQ: http://www.thesuperficial.com/ archives/ja14.jpg ---- Alexis Bledel you're still my girlfriend though, i only see jessica when you're out of town ;p
the full JESSICA spread by topaz4206	Mar 17th, 2005 02:56:19 PM
i'm.....getting....faint..... http://www.jessica-alba.ws/gq. html
What is REALLY keeping this movie from an Oscar... by scrivener	Mar 17th, 2005 02:58:45 PM
It's not about some kind of liberal Hollywood agenda. Therefore, no Oscar.
Sin City ads, and Alba by Everett Robert	Mar 17th, 2005 02:58:59 PM
a) I FINALLY saw a Sin City ad today on TV...E! I think or maybe Sci-Fi, can't remember exactly I was half asleep but woke up fast!...and b) does Jessica Alba even know what is means to be against the objectification of women in movies...is she THAT smart or did some exec or agent convince her that she didn't need to get naked
I think Sin City looks like great, exciting cinema. I wonder if by Barry Egan	Mar 17th, 2005 03:27:00 PM

Puh-Lant! by cganimation	Mar 17th, 2005 03:55:35 PM
"now the negatives. michael madsen is kinda wasted." Everything about this review is way too positive. It reads like an overly enthusiastic teachers pet vying for attention and licking ass.
"you all now have to sweat it out until April 1." by matrix69	Mar 17th, 2005 04:21:16 PM
Sorry to disappoint, but I attended a screening last week. I also suspect plantage here because: "i don't know how she got 'em, i don't wanna know, but after seeing this film, i'm cool with whatever method of persuasion my little vixen of a gal used to score two tickets." Sorry, I don't believe that. First of all, you'd have asked how she got 'em; give me a break. Second, screenings like this generally don't issue 'tickets'. If passes are handed out to the public they are 'admit-two'. Try again.
What the hell is a "guest director"? by XAOS	Mar 17th, 2005 04:22:04 PM
Does that mean he showed up on set one day and just wouldn't fucking leave?
From what I've seen of Tarentino, he probably did. by Right Bastard	Mar 17th, 2005 04:24:36 PM

This is promising... by Childe Roland	Mar 17th, 2005 04:47:46 PM
...news indeed. I've been quietly anticipating this one for a while now (largely bvecause I'm afraid if my wife finds out how badly I want to see it, she won't want to go), and the preliminary reports are all encouraging. Oh... and Lloyd Dobler is just an unhappy ending away from being Martin Blank. Think about it. "I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen." - Lloyd. "Thanks for the pen." - Martin. There are many more parallels that seem to indicate that Grosse Pointe Blank is some sort of alternate reality sequel to Say Anything in which Lloyd didn't get the girl, joined the army as his father intended and became a professional killer. There are other worlds than these.
The marketing campaign is such a bust, I can't imagine this open by Charles Grady	Mar 17th, 2005 06:28:35 PM
That's too bad; I mean, this is pretty much THE best cast assembled in the last few years, and the ads/trailers barely sell the unbelievable amount of cool actors on hand; Without punching up the presence of Owen or Del Toro or Murphy or Willis, etc, etc, all we're left with is footage that may look cool to US on a comic book-movie web site, but is TOTALLY alienating to date-night couples in Middle America; Honestly, do you think the MISS CONGENIALITY 2/THE PACIFIER audience knows what to make of a CGI-looking stylized graphic novel? Think generic couples who listen to John Mayer are gonna go see something with a guy called "Yellow Bastard"? Even the KILL BILL movies bottomed out at a certain point and couldn't really crossover past the core QT/hipster audience, and that had the advantage of not being mostly animated; I'm not saying that it doesn't look very "COOL" to geeks, but to the Joe Schmo crowd who lines up for PACIFIER, this is a mega-bomb in the making that will make SKY CAPTAIN'S b.o. failure look dignified.
Saw it at a preview today. by Bad Ash	Mar 17th, 2005 06:46:06 PM
It was amazing. I've never read the comics before and was floored. I'm not usually a fan of the too literal comic book look but it sure did work here. Saw it projected digitally and it was gorgeous. Few nitpicks, the Clive Owen section wasn't as good as the rest of the movie and I felt some of the female cast members were a bit weak but still great anyway. Mickey Rourke was terrific. I really want to see this again.
Re: What the hell is a "guest director"? by Electric Tsunami	Mar 17th, 2005 07:26:56 PM
Same as a "special guest star" in a theatrical movie I guess.
Holy stray dogs sweating in the hot afternoon of gun smoke steam by Neosamurai85	Mar 17th, 2005 07:27:04 PM
I never needed a review to jazz me about this. I
Still... by Neosamurai85	Mar 17th, 2005 07:40:43 PM
Nice review... very nice. Peace.
"I got a review - the type of reviews I despise that are literal by Archduke_Chocula	Mar 17th, 2005 09:44:32 PM
Worst still is someone released three books ruining the whole thing for viewers :P
You sold me when you mentioned a Powers Boothe cameo by BillEmic	Mar 17th, 2005 09:49:38 PM
Mickey Rourke and Powers Boothe in the same movie? Hot damn, they should have gotten Walter Hill as "special guest director"!!!
"Here comes success" -Iggy Pop by Neosamurai85	Mar 17th, 2005 10:00:07 PM
The success of a film is not weighed by how many people see it, but how many people remember it and love it after the hype fades out. A good film is also one that has an influence on future generations of filmmakers. Independence Day was a blockbuster and thus a masterpiece where Jimi Hendrix was just a one-hit wonder and thus, by suc logic, a lesser artist than the Backstreet Boys. As long as they at least break even I couldn
"crassless" by Scunner	Mar 18th, 2005 06:04:07 AM
Good word, did you make it yourself?
Lloyd Dobler Kicks Ass by Yo Yo Man	Mar 18th, 2005 07:32:12 AM
"I'm totally and completely serious." Never read the comics, but I love noir, therefore am very excited.
I agree with Charles Grady by Barry Egan	Mar 18th, 2005 07:56:17 AM
I think this looks like it will be a very good movie; personally, I can't wait to see it. However, I think it will probably bomb at the box office. I think the fact that it's largely in black and white is a plus (there should be more contemporary b&w films)but the average moviegoer probably will stay away because of it. The teenagers who ruin the movigoing experience will say it looks "stupid" ("stylized" = "stupid" to them) and fight each other for tickets to to see Ring 2.
Success by Monkey Butler	Mar 18th, 2005 08:34:48 AM
Fair enough it could be a very "successful" movie without being financially successful, but I know that I for one would still prefer it to make alot of money, just to prove Rodriguez/Miller etc. right. And I thought Jessica Alba just used a body double, because otherwise that's just stupid. And to whoever said that Jessica Alba is only in films BECAUSE of the objectification of women - damn straight. Somebody really needs to tell her that her acting talents aren't as upfront as her other talents.
Just can't wait by McBane	Mar 18th, 2005 09:47:51 AM
I am sitting in the UK, at my desk working on some dull computer testing. The Sun is shining outside and all I can think about is Sin City and the lack of a UK fucking release date! I must have watched the trailer about 60 times. It's near perfect. But I have a bad feeling that because of the 'tards who made pacifier go to number one in the charts, this will never appear on screen in the UK. If they don't go to the cinema in numbers, it'll never see the light of day on good ole blighty. Looks like the brothers Winestain have fucked me again. Those fat lazy good for nothing fucks should have been promoting this from the outset. As it has been pointed out, the cast alone is enough to make most people get off their asses and to the cinema. My only hope is that word of mouth knocks this baby off the Planet. It's unlikely to do Passion of the Christ numbers cos hey, there probably isn't enough sadism in it. So I implore you all, get your friends, relatives and casual acquaintances into the cinema. It's not exactly a hard sell. We have Sex, Violence and Big name actors/Actresses. Tell everyone about it. It'd be better if they all went and hated it rather than for it to die an undignified death at the box office. Don't underestimate the power of this site. It might not be able to make or break films like it used to, but WE CAN. People power is the name of the game. Oh and for those curious about real bad ass graphic novels and comic books. Check out the entire Sin City series and The Watchman by Frank Miller and Alan Moore. I spent two weekends immersing myself in those fabulous worlds. I only wish it had been sooner. SO just to recap, I implore you guys in the States to see this multiple times and get every guy and his gal to the cinema to catch this flick. I need my SIN CITY on the big screen, in the UK. Do it today, for the geek from the UK. :)
Well said by Lone Fox	Mar 18th, 2005 10:13:28 AM
However, I couldn't care less if the 'general public' don't get it. Fuck them up their Bridget Jones Diary asses. As long as it's faithful (Miller co-directed for the love of fuck) nothing will change how much it kicks right off
I like the grass roots idea. by Barry Egan	Mar 18th, 2005 11:39:31 AM

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box office by Right Bastard	Mar 18th, 2005 04:01:20 PM
No, financial success does not mean a movie is any good. The reason I want the public to support movies like Sin City and give this movie lots of money is because a large box office will make studios more inclined to fund risky films. The reason we keep getting assaulted with a massive ammount of crappy movies is that people spend a lot of money on them, so the studios keep making them.
So is this in black and white or what? by Napoleon Park	Mar 18th, 2005 04:33:14 PM
Mickey Roarke? (Wracking brain trying to think of anything I ever liked him in... nope.) That girl from that Dark angel show that tanked? The bass player from Josie and the Pussycats. Wow, what a cast. And it's based on a comic I got bored with after the second mini-series? And it needed three directors? Hey, that worked for Casino Royale. Sounds great. Wake me when it's on TBS next year.
"The stink of money hangs on your every argument" by Anlashok	Mar 18th, 2005 05:10:29 PM
Nice. Good line.
As my screenwriting teacher taught me, by DAS JANKE	Mar 18th, 2005 05:12:54 PM
"...and God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God fucking help you!" ...other than that, i have no hopes for this film. i just want to see some flaccid, sloppy translation from book to screen.
Lone Fox by Anlashok	Mar 18th, 2005 05:18:20 PM
I agree with you on the general publics taste. For over thirty years I've been a witness to what the masses adore; and as always I've found their collective taste...less than stellar.
speaking of that by Right Bastard	Mar 18th, 2005 05:32:24 PM
Has anyone seen Henry Rollins' movie show on IFC? There's one episode/month, and in the most recent he had a great rant on not supporting crap with you money. If anyone gets IFC, you have to TIVO his show.
Of course the mainstream audience will have a different taste th by Dented Helmet	Mar 19th, 2005 12:44:01 AM
Just like you will probably have different taste in cars than a car buff, or different taste in wine than a wine conoisseur (sp). People that have a hobby in a certain area, tend to have more refined taste in that area. So us film fans here on the AICN talk backs are most likely going to have hire standards/be more likely to go see an experimental film.
higher not hire, holy shit by Dented Helmet	Mar 19th, 2005 12:44:29 AM

I see what you are saying moviemack... by McBane	Mar 19th, 2005 03:31:55 AM
But I don't think Sin City would become tainted by sequelitis. If I remember correctly, Rodriguez and Miller (or maybe just Rodriguez) mainly funded this film. And I know after Miller's corporate cock shafting by the studios in the whole Robocop script writing debacle, he is likely to make sure he still has tight control on the rights to Sin City. Like I said, I don't really care about box office success. I do care about seeing this in the UK on the big screen. And that depends on bums on seats in the US of A. Simple. It's the 'Napoleon Park' attitude that worries me. But I believe he is a classic example of why this film may not have any widespread appeal. It is at the end of the day, a Black and White experimental film. And because of it's ensemble nature, all the major stars only really have small roles. But fuck it. Who really cares. As long as it is out UnRated on region one DVD, I'll just watch it on my mates 42" Hitachi Plasma. He says I don't come and see him enough anyway. Oh and in response to Das Janke, you may want to ask your screen writing teacher about Film Noir. Or maybe u just slep through that class.
Cash cow by Electric Tsunami	Mar 19th, 2005 03:45:46 AM
All of Film Noir was a commercial knock off of Citizen Kane's experimental technique (maybe mixed with some German silent era avant garde...).
Casino Royale by Electric Tsunami	Mar 19th, 2005 03:50:01 AM
Casino Royale wouldn't have sucked if the studio hadn't bent over to Orson Welles and fired Peter Sellers. What at hack that fat fuck turned out to be. Nat'l Lampoon had it right with their paper model of Orson doing a magic trick on the Tonight Show. From Kane to this???

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